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A Bottle in the Gaza Sea (French: Une bouteille à la mer, Quebec French: Une bouteille dans la mer de Gaza) is a 2011 drama directed by Thierry Binisti. The film, an international co-production shot in French, Hebrew and Arabic, is based on the French young adult novel Une bouteille dans la mer de Gaza by Valérie Zenatti, originally published in 2005 and adapted for the screen by Zenatti and Binisti. Zenatti taught Agathe Bonitzer Hebrew in preparation for starring in the film.[1]
| A Bottle in the Gaza Sea | |
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| Directed by | Thierry Binisti |
| Written by | Thierry Binisti, Valérie Zenatti |
| Produced by | TS Productions France 3 Cinéma EMA Films (Canada) Lama Films (Israel) |
| Starring | Agathe Bonitzer Mahmoud Shalaby Hiam Abbass |
| Cinematography | Laurent Brunet |
| Edited by | Jean-Paul Husson |
| Music by | Benoît Charest |
| Distributed by | Roissy Films |
Release dates |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
| Countries | France Canada Israel |
| Languages | Hebrew Arabic French |
| Budget | €2,000,000 (estimated) |
Plot edit
Tal (Agathe Bonitzer) is the 17-year-old daughter of recent French immigrants to Israel who live in Jerusalem. Following a bomb attack on a local café, she throws a bottle into the sea near Gaza with a message asking for an explanation. Naïm (Mahmoud Shalaby), a sensitive but aimless 20-year-old Palestinian living in Gaza, discovers the bottle and tries to answer Tal's question by initiating an email correspondence. Their mutual suspicion soon develops into a tender friendship.
Cast edit
- Agathe Bonitzer as Tal Levine
- Mahmoud Shalaby as Naïm Al Fardjouki
- Hiam Abbass as Intessar
- Riff Cohen as Efrat
- Abraham Belaga as Eytan Levine
- Jean-Philippe Écoffey as Dan Levine
- Smadi Wolfman as Myriam
- Salim Daw as Ahmed
- Loai Nofi as Hakim
- François Loriquet as Thomas Morin
- Abdallah El Akal as Daoud
References edit
- ^ "A Bottle In The Gaza Sea." Archived 2016-05-18 at the Wayback Machine Film Movement. 1 June 2016.
External links edit
- Official website (in French)
- Une bouteille à la mer at IMDb
- A Bottle in the Gaza Sea at Rotten Tomatoes
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